Re: Running mail and web servers on UNIX

Hi there,

as I use MariaDB this is my current start script for 3.8.x guice jpa:

#!/bin/sh
java \
    -javaagent:james-server-jpa-app.lib/openjpa-3.2.0.jar \
    -Dworking.directory=. \
    -Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=2048 \
    -Dlogback.configurationFile=conf/logback.xml \
    -cp 
"james-server-jpa-app.jar:james-server-jpa-app.lib/*:mariadb-java-client-3.4.1.jar" 
\
    org.apache.james.JPAJamesServerMain

put into james directory as start.sh and given +x
If you don't want to add a database driver just remove it. There's also 
a simpler version in the docs which starts the main .jar itself (which 
contains a classpath in its manifest).

@Benoit
As for your planed 3.9 in Q1: Can you maybe look into make auto-loading 
of jdbc drivers via ServiceLoader an option? Would be cool to just 
drop-in the jdbc driver into the lib folder and have it loaded without 
giving it explicit in a start script.


Have a nice weekend.

Matt


Am 29.01.25 um 09:35 schrieb [email protected]:
> Hi David and other James users,
>
> Does anyone have a script that I can use on Debian 12 bookworm to 
> start James?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> On 2025-01-21 12:20, David Matthews wrote:
>
>> hello
>>
>>> Most Linux services require some sort of sendmail - either sendmail
>>> itself or wrappers from exim or postfix. So although you can use James
>>> as your primary server you have to provide some implementation of
>>> sendmail or have to connect it to James.
>>
>> I have to dissent from that.
>>
>> I'm a long time unix user and did investigate James maybe  3 years 
>> ago on linux; I'm also a java programmer, so I did have to  take a 
>> look. I stuck with my  exim4/dovecot solution, at least one reason 
>> being that the devils you know (almost 25 years of experience) are 
>> better than the devil you don't.
>>
>> But there is no reason I know that you cannot dispense with 
>> sendmail/exim4/postfix on unix and run james. I would expect your 
>> setup on windows would need no or minimal changes. So you have the 
>> same james/java on a much improved base - linux/unix > windows (by a 
>> very long way)
>>
>> My email howto might be of interest, I can't check the url as I'm in 
>> a public library that blocks part of my domain, but I think:
>>
>> https://dmatthews.org/email_server/perfect_email.html
>>
>> If not check the start menu at dmatthews.org
>>
>> -- 
>> David Matthews
>> [email protected]
>>
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